Recognizing Sponsoring Partner: Simpson Gumpertz & Heger

About Simpson Gumpertz & Heger

Simpson Gumpertz & Heger (SGH) is a national engineering firm that designs, investigates, and rehabilitates structures and building enclosures. Our award-winning work encompasses building, transportation, nuclear, water/wastewater, and science/defense projects throughout the United States and in more than 30 other countries. 

SGH Employees are star volunteers with the Chapter:

Mark Webster has supported our outreach and cultivation of nodes of green building market transformation throughout the state on our Regional and State-wide Advocacy Committee. "RASOC" has enabled groups to come together in western MA, Worcester County, and on Cape Cod. Mark also is part of our Building Science working group.

David Bliss, another engineer at SGH, has been instrumental with our Advocacy Committee and created our Voters Guide this year to provide stakeholders insight into how to grill candidates on our issues - what and how will they support our mission of green buildings for all within a generation? David is also supporting our website redesign with attention to our graphics and mapped representations of green buildings and green building activity.

Thank you to SGH for being a valued and hard-working supporting Sponsoring Partner with the USGBC MA Chapter!

AHA Consulting Engineers

AHA Consulting Engineers has been a USGBC MA Chapter Sponsoring Partner for 3 years and a regular participant in many Chapter activities including the MA LEED Project Showcase and Earth Day Gala. We would like to thank AHA for their support and commitment to creating healthy, high performance buildings.

We'd also like to highlight AHA individual Chapter members for their efforts to support our work.

Robert Andrews, Partner / Department Manager has been the project administrator on 29 LEED projects in MA, totaling 6,424,537 gross square footage of LEED certified space.

Dan Whittet, Sustainability Consultant, has supported the Chapter in helping us develop a robust LEED education program as well as provided consultation on updating the Chapter website and database.


About AHA Consulting Engineers

Founded in 1991, AHA Consulting Engineers is a Mechanical, Electrical & Plumbing design firm of over 130 employees with offices in Atlanta, Boston and Washington, D.C. Their work is overseen by 5 principals who pursue the firm's philosophy of delivering an efficient design, coordinated with creative, interactive spaces, on time and on budget.

AHA provides consulting services in:

• Mechanical
• Electrical
• Plumbing
• Fire Protection
• Building Commissioning
• Sustainability Consulting
• LEED Project Administration
• MEP Design Documentation
• Energy Modeling
• Building Information Modeling

Blu® Homes Breezehouse: Awarded First-Ever “2014 Dream Home of the Year”, by Real Simple and This Old House

Congratulations to USGBC MA Chapter Sponsor Blu Homes for being awarded the "2014 Dream Home of the Year" by Real Simple and This Old House. The home located in Southern California was on display for the public each weekend in September and is highlighted in the September issues of Real Simple and This Old House magazines.

Click here to learn more about the award and the Breezehouse 

Nitsch Engineering Celebrates 25th Anniversary By Giving Back to Community

Congratulations to Nitsch Engineering and USGBC MA Chapter sponsor for celebrating 25 years in business by giving back to the Boston community.

Nitsch Engineering celebrated their 25th anniversary by honoring their commitment to “building better communities with you.” Working closely with Boston Cares, a non-profit agency that produces team-oriented volunteer events, Nitsch Engineering planned a community service event and celebration on September 4th. The event brought clients, friends, and employees together at Boston University’s Agganis Arena to assemble 60,000 meals to benefit Massachusetts food pantries. The event ended with a party to celebrate the milestone anniversary and thank all the volunteers.

Nitsch Engineering President and CEO Lisa A. Brothers, PE, LEED AP BD+C, said, “When we started discussing how to celebrate our anniversary, we felt that it was important to find a way to combine celebration with community service, since that’s such a big part of who we are as a company. By donating the money to cover the cost of ingredients for more than 60,000 meals, we were able to honor the spirit and commitment of our tagline, ‘building better communities with you.’" She went on to say, "It’s hard to believe that it’s been 25 years since we opened our doors. Time really does fly when you’re having fun! We’re thrilled that our future looks bright, as we continue to grow and expand our services. We know the next 25 years will be just as great!”

Since the company’s founding in 1989, Nitsch Engineering has grown from a one-person civil engineering company into an 85-person firm that also provides land surveying, transportation engineering, structural engineering, green infrastructure, planning, and geographic information systems (GIS) services. Founding Principal and Chairman Judith Nitsch, PE, LEED AP BD+C, commented, “Thanks to our terrific clients, fabulous employees, and wonderful projects in 18 states and five countries, we’ve been able to grow into a successful, respected company that just keeps getting better!”

  

About Boston Cares

Boston Cares (www.bostoncares.org) is the largest volunteer agency in New England, an Innovation Hub within the national Hands On Network, and a leader in the volunteer engagement sector. Their year-round volunteer programs and seasonal signature service events engage adults of all ages, children and teens, and corporate partners. Boston Cares annually mobilizes 21,000 volunteers who serve 65,000 hours in support of 155 schools and nonprofits. Every $1 invested in Boston Cares returns at least $4 of value to the community through volunteer labor, supplies, equipment, and other services.

About Nitsch Engineering

Nitsch Engineering (www.nitscheng.com) specializes in providing civil engineering, land surveying, transportation engineering, structural engineering, green infrastructure, planning, and GIS services. Since 1989, the company has worked with developers, corporate and institutional owners, public agencies, and design professionals on major private development and public infrastructure projects in 18 states and five countries. Nitsch Engineering is the largest Women-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE) civil engineering firm in Massachusetts, and is also certified as a WBE by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) and in New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

Nitsch Engineering Ranked #2 Best Civil Engineering Firm to Work For

Congratulations Nitsch Engineering and USGBC MA Chapter Sponsor for being named a great place to work!

For the sixth time, Nitsch Engineering, Inc. – a Boston-based civil engineering, land surveying, transportation engineering, sustainable site consulting, planning, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) firm – has been recognized as one of the Best Firms to Work For in the United States by ZweigWhite. Nitsch Engineering was ranked #2 in the ranking of civil engineering firms, and #4 in the A/E industry overall.

“We are particularly proud of this award because the ranking weighs employee feedback more heavily than corporate information – which shows us that we’ve been successful in building a company where our employees feel respected, have challenging and exciting work, and are happy with the direction the firm has taken,” said Lisa A. Brothers, PE, LEED AP, President and CEO of Nitsch Engineering. “Nitsch Engineering is dedicated to continuing to listen to our employees and to provide them with the work/life balance and professional growth opportunities that directly address their needs. We look forward to continuing to improve our workplace as we grow in the future – and to hopefully being ranked #1 soon!”  

The Best Firms to Work For list is one of the most meaningful rankings in the industry. The annual competition includes a corporate survey which accounts for 25% of the total score, and an employee satisfaction survey that accounts for 75% of the total score. Grading criteria include corporate culture, benefits, compensation, professional development, performance/recognition, and recruiting/retention. All of this year’s winners can be seen on ZweigWhite’s website at http://www.zweigwhite.com/awards/best-firms-to-work-for/index.php.  

  

About Nitsch Engineering

Nitsch Engineering (www.nitscheng.com) specializes in providing civil engineering, land surveying, transportation engineering, sustainable site consulting, planning, and GIS services. Since 1989, the company has worked with developers, corporate and institutional owners, public agencies, and design professionals on major private development and public infrastructure projects in 18 states and five countries. Nitsch Engineering is the largest Women-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE) civil engineering firm in Massachusetts, and is also certified as a WBE by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) and in New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.